From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: gabriele@medialab.sissa.it, 71429@debbugs.gnu.org,
stephen.berman@gmx.net, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#71429: Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:08:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86msnvb942.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1q57pc79.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:41:14 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: stephen.berman@gmx.net, gabriele@medialab.sissa.it,
> stefankangas@gmail.com, 71429@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:41:14 -0400
>
> > Or maybe you are saying that a Lisp program that binds
> > search-spaces-regexp has a bug, because Lisp code is not supposed to
> > bind that?
>
> That, yes. Binding it should be done carefully only at those places
> where the contained Lisp code is performing a search whose regexp was
> built from interactive user input.
>
> If you let bind that var and then call arbitrary code, I'd
> expect breakage.
OK, thanks. So I now added the above caveat to the ELisp manual, and
I'm closing this bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-08 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-08 7:03 bug#71429: Inconsistent y-or-n-p prompt behavior in Emacs Lisp Gabriele Nicolardi
2024-06-08 8:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 9:20 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 13:59 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 15:30 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-08 17:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-09 11:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-06-08 15:47 ` Stephen Berman via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-06-08 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-09 11:01 ` Stefan Kangas
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